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Dr Tim Cavagnaro

Lecturer

B Ag Sc (Hons) & PhD. University of Adelaide

Telephone: +61-3-9905- 5793
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: tim.cavagnaro@sci.monash.edu.au

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Dr Tim Cavagnaro
Research areas
  • Soil ecology and above- and below-ground linkages
  • Plant mutants as model systems to study plant-microbe interactions
  • Climate change impacts on organisms and ecosystems

Potential honours topics
Recent publications
  • Cavagnaro TR, Jackson LE. Isotopic fractionation of zinc in field grown tomato. Canadian Journal of Botany. In press.
  • Cavagnaro TR, Jackson LE, Scow KM, Hristova KR. Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhizas on Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria in an Organic Farm Soil. Microbial Ecology. In press.
  • Minoshima H, Jackson LE, Cavagnaro TR, Sánchez-Moreno S, Ferris H, Temple SR, Mitchell JP. Soil Food Webs and Carbon Dynamics in Response to Conservation Tillage in Legume Rotations in California. Soil Science Society of America Journal. In press.
  • 1Cavagnaro TR, Jackson LE, Scow KM. Climate change: challenges and solutions for California agricultural landscapes. Public Interest Energy Research Program Report. California Energy Commission, California.
  • Cavagnaro TR, Jackson LE, Six J, Ferris H, Goyal S, Asami D, Scow KM (2006) Arbuscular mycorrhizas, microbial communities, nutrient availability, and soil aggregates in organic tomato production. Plant and Soil. 282: 209-225.
  • Cavagnaro TR, Jackson LE, Scow KM (2006) Synthesis, emerging trends, future directions and conclusions. In 1Cavagnaro TR, Jackson LE, Scow KM. Climate change: challenges and solutions for California agricultural landscapes. Public Interest Energy Research Program Report. California Energy Commission, California.
  • Rosenstock T, Smukler S, Cavagnaro TR (2006) California agriculture and climate change. In 1Cavagnaro TR, Jackson LE, Scow KM. Climate change: challenges and solutions for California agricultural landscapes. Public Interest Energy Research Program Report. California Energy Commission, California.
  • Cavagnaro TR, Smith FA, Smith SE, Jakobson (2005). Functional diversity in arbuscular mycorrhizas: exploitation of soil patches with different phosphate enrichment differs among fungal species. Plant, Cell and Environment 164 (3): 485-491.
  • van Aarle IM, Cavagnaro TR, Smith SE, Smith FA, Dickson S. (2005) Metabolic activity of Glomus intraradices in Arum- and Paris-type arbuscular mycorrhiza colonization. New Phytologist. 166: 611-618.
  • Cavagnaro TR, Smith FA, Hay G, Carne-Cavagnaro VL, Smith SE (2004). Inoculum type does not affect overall resistance of an arbuscular mycorrhiza-defective tomato mutant to colonisation but inoculation does change competitive interactions with wild-type tomato. New Phytologist 161 (2): 485-494.
  • Cavagnaro TR, Smith FA, Smith SE (2004). Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and a mycorrhiza-defective mutant tomato: does a non-infective fungus alter the ability of an infective fungus to colonise the roots - and vice versa?  New Phytologist, 164 (3): 485-491.
  • Ezawa T, Cavagnaro TR, Smith SE, Smith FA, Ohtomo R (2004). Rapid accumulation of polyphosphate in extraradical hyphae of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus as revealed by histochemistry and a polyphosphate kinase/luciferase system. New Phytologist 161 (2): 387-392.
  • Cavagnaro TR, Smith FA, Ayling SM, Smith SE (2003). Growth and phosphorus nutrition of a Paris-type arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. New Phytologist. 157(1):127-134.
  • Burleigh SH, Cavagnaro TR, Jakobsen I (2002). Functional diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizas extends to expression of plant genes involved in P nutrition. Journal of Experimental Botany. 53(374): 1-9.